And some idiocy on the other side of the oil debate

[Scooter]

They’ve come by the hundreds to Seattle’s Elliott Bay – colorful kayaks and canoes, paddle boards and sailboats – to protest Royal Dutch Shell’s plan to drill in the Arctic Ocean. Looming large nearby is Shell’s Polar Pioneer drilling rig, the first of two oil-drilling rigs the oil giant plans to use this summer as it explores for oil off Alaska’s northern coast.

So far, the “kayaktavists” and other protesters – acting under the “sHellNo” coalition of “activists, artists, and noisemakers” – have kept their legal distance (100 yards or so) as the US Coast Guard and law enforcement agencies keep an eye on them.

But on Monday, some are vowing, they will escalate their efforts to include acts of civil disobedience – perhaps an attempt to scale the 400-foot long, 300-foot tall rig, soon to be joined by the Noble Discoverer rig, which arrived at the Port of Everett last week and is slated to join the Polar Pioneer at the Port of Seattle’s Terminal 5.

Did no one point out the incongruity of protesting offshore oil drilling by launching a fleet of watercraft constructed of petroleum products?

[rubato]

It is only incongruous if they can only be made with oil from environmentally sensitive areas like the arctic.

Or are you assuming that they are protesting all mining of oil and not just that which despoils the arctic?


Translated into Canadian:

It is only incongruous if they can only be made with oil from environmentally sensitive areas like the arctic.

Or are you assuming that they are protesting all mining of oil and not just that which despoils the arctic? Eh?


yrs,
rubato

[Sue U]

Could also be that the "fleet" is all made of tropical hardwoods.

[Long Run]

Apparently, a few noticed:

They came in automobiles fueled by oil, wearing clothing made from oil, to protest oil, in kayaks made from oil. Then they tweeted their photos on phones made from oil and drove home.

Share the irony.

[oldr_n_wsr]

At least they are wearing PFD's.

I always get a chuckle when people protest things like a cell tower going up or a power plant being built. But then they have a hissy fit if their call/texting doesn't go throught or their power has a brownout due to lack of capacity.

Kinda like all the climate change champions arriving at the global climate conference each in their own private jets and limos.